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Exclamation Ctrl key briefly freezes Vista/Games?

When playing a game or doing anything in Vista my left Ctrl key if held will temp. freeze my system until let go. ANY IDEAS?
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you probably have another program running in the background that does something when you press the ctrl key, causing the game to freeze.

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I know its been awile since I posted this. Anyway it had something to do with my ps2 keyboard I bought a USB keyboard and the problem went away.
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